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Offline oldcrone

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Re: surnames where do they come from
« Reply #18 on: Saturday 08 April 06 12:41 BST (UK) »
By the way, I got this info from http://www.houseofnames.com/.  Absolutely loads of surname meanings which hopefully might answer your original question, gcar?

MrsLizzy, it's even got the name Moron on it!!    :o

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Shaw/Smith: Ottawa, Canada<br />Davies/Hill: Monmouth/Gloucestershire/Middlesex/Surrey<br />Chatfield: Kent<br />Crone: Kent/Sussex/Surrey/Ireland<br />Lyden: Ireland<br />Pannell, Newland, Proudley (travellers): Sussex/Surrey<br />Dobson, Hollins: Staffs/Cheshire/Warwicks<br />Boys: Sussex/London<br />Payne: Suffolk/London
Hasting(s): Sussex

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Re: surnames where do they come from
« Reply #19 on: Saturday 08 April 06 13:23 BST (UK) »
Thanks Clara, for the site .I've just been on it,and had a look,found out how my name came about.geraldine.
stoke on trent. carson,wain,leese,shaw,key,scalley,mitchell,<br />james,<br /> nottingham,pollard,grice,<br />derbyshire,vallands,turton,howe.<br /> new zealand,turton<br /> canada,carson.<br />australia,mitchell,scalley,<br />

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Re: surnames where do they come from
« Reply #20 on: Tuesday 17 July 12 22:01 BST (UK) »
Well having the surname Trollope I never knew it meant three wolves - am liking it!
TROLLOP/TROLIP/TROLLOPE - Horningsham, Wiltshire

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Re: surnames where do they come from
« Reply #21 on: Wednesday 18 July 12 07:08 BST (UK) »
Well, how did Trollope get to mean that other meaning, re a certain type of female?
Foxy lady???

Years ago I met a family with the surname Aarsse - understandably they pronounced it Air-See!

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« Reply #22 on: Wednesday 18 July 12 09:15 BST (UK) »
Yes, I fear a lady of some ill repute probably had the phrase coined about her and it stuck!  Probably why someone went on and stuck an 'e' on the end of Trollop and asked for it to be pronounced 'Troll-opee'  ;D
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Re: surnames where do they come from
« Reply #23 on: Wednesday 18 July 12 23:02 BST (UK) »
Thomas Crapper invented the modern toilet and the name stuck :-\  I wonder what his family think of that?

Whitaker I wondered how that name came about, and sure enough it dates back to when the family farmed wheat.

Lyall as in the Scottish sound for Lion.  I do not think any of the Lyall's fought lions, maybe they were fearless like a lion or just slept all day and got the women to run around for them ;D

We all know how son gets put on the end of a name like Robertson - Son of Robert, where does that leave the females? 

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TEW family of Leire/Leicester and New Zealand
MERRICKS of Stafford/Birmingham
PENTECOST of Surrey and New Zealand
POTENTIER of France, England and Canada
WATKINS of London and New Zealand
WHITAKER of Guiseley Yorkshire and New Zealand
LYALL, of Dundee, Caithness and New Zealand

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Re: surnames where do they come from
« Reply #24 on: Friday 20 July 12 01:45 BST (UK) »
Scandinavians add dotter to a name, e.g. hansdotter is Hans' daughter

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Re: surnames where do they come from
« Reply #25 on: Saturday 21 July 12 05:15 BST (UK) »
Then there are the census pages.

Due to the number of people who couldn't write and the census taker writing down the name as they heard it, quite a few names would have been changed on how they were spelt.

I have a family with the name Combe but in one census they are down as ANScombe. I imagine when the family gave their name someone must have said Robert and Combe which was misheard and written as Anscombe.  :-\ :-\

Luckily for me the next census they were back to Combe  :)
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« Reply #26 on: Saturday 21 July 12 06:46 BST (UK) »
We had a family at school named Sidebottom - they pronounced it Siddee-Bott-ome.

I don't know how you get around Winterbottom - but you would probably want to - we had some of them too!   I guess they came from some place in England called  . . . .bottom - and there are lots of them aren't there!   ;)
Gaunt, Ransom, McNally, Stanfield, Kimberley. (Tasmania)
Brown, Johnstone, Eskdale, Brand  (Dumfriesshire,  Scotland)
Booth, Bruerton, Deakin, Wilkes, Kimberley
(Warwicks, Staffords)
Gaunt (Yorks)
Percy, Dunning, Hyne, Grigg, Farley (Devon, UK)
Duncan (Fife, Devon), Hugh, Blee (Cornwall)
Green, Mansfield, (Herts)
Cavenaugh, Ransom (Middlesex)
 

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